“…According to the reported methods for preparing HEA coatings, the surface modification techniques include electrochemical deposition ( Soare et al, 2015 ), physical vapor deposition (PVD) ( Khan et al, 2020 ; Xia et al, 2020 ), laser cladding ( Zhang et al, 2017 ; Guo et al, 2018 ; Wang L. et al, 2019 ), plasma cladding ( Anupam et al, 2019 ; Peng et al, 2019 ; Zhu et al, 2020 ), and thermal spraying ( Wang et al, 2011 ; Vallimanalan et al, 2020 ), etc. Particularly, the magnetron sputtering and laser cladding in the biomedical field are two relatively promising technologies for the preparation of HEA coatings.…”